Krause Peter M.

We offer you a partnership-based collaboration at the highest professional level in our areas of expertise:

Labor
Employer-employee relationships in private and public-law employment relationships.

Renting, housing, and construction
Legal aspects of housing and construction.

Inheritance
Issues relating to inheritance and the execution of wills.

Companies and associations
Company forms for various purposes.

And this too...
We know reliable partners with whom we ourselves work successfully.
 

I look forward to hearing from you.

Peter Krause, Attorney at Law

 

 

CV

University degree in law, Zurich, 1995
District Court of Zurich, 1995–1996
Legal advisor to the Tenants' Association, 1996–1998
Admitted to the bar in the Canton of Zurich, 1998
Law firm Lenz & Staehelin, 1998–2003
Master of Laws (LL.M.), San Francisco, 2003
Founded Krause Rechtsanwälte law firm, 2004
Krause & Janis law firm, 2009–2019
Founded Krause law firm, 2019
Judge at Division Court 6, 1993–2005
Lecturer at University of Applied Sciences, 2005 – present

 

Work

Are you an employer or an employee? With decades of experience, we are familiar with virtually all issues that arise in employer-employee relationships, both in private and public-law employment relationships. For example, we can help with ambiguities or disputes regarding:

• Employment contracts and employment orders
• Employee evaluations and job references
• Non-competition clauses and contractual penalties
• Warnings, probationary periods
• Termination and termination agreements
• Unemployment insurance

Of course, we also advise you on the drafting of regulations, contracts, and references, and represent you in court.

 

Housing and construction

Are you a condominium owner, landlord, or tenant? Or are you building? Do you want to clarify an urgent question? Or are you already in the middle of a dispute and have been sued? We are familiar with practically all aspects, both human and legal, that cause problems in housing and construction. We are happy to help with, for example:

• Tenancy agreements, concluding contracts, or termination
• Purchase of condominiums, living in a community
• Lease adjustments, decisions of the condominium owners' association
• Easements such as rights of way, rights of passage, or rights of proximity
• Real estate
• Defects and damage during construction or during the lease
• Usufruct and right of residence
• Disputes with tradespeople, disputes with the client

We are independent, draft contracts ourselves or review those drafted by others; we advise on tensions in the tenant/landlord contractual relationship or in the condominium association, or if there are problems during construction; and, of course, we also represent you in private and business negotiations as well as in court.

 

Inheritance

Are you an heir or do you want to leave your heirs with no uncertainties? We advise and support you in all aspects of inheritance. Among other things, we help with questions regarding:

• Inheritance contract
• Distribution of the estate
• Settlement of the estate
• Wills
• Execution of wills

We work with you to find a pragmatic solution, but of course we also represent you in court and before the authorities.

 

Companies and associations

Would you like to start or take over a company, invest in a company, or are you already a company owner? Are you a member or board member of an association? We advise and support you with the aim of finding the best solution in all aspects relating to the various forms of companies. We help you with questions relating to associations. Examples include:

• Establishment, type of company, advantages and disadvantages
• Who has a say? Shares and voting rights
• Convening and chairing meetings, challenging resolutions
• Withdrawal of a shareholder or partner
• Exclusion of an association member
• Shareholder agreement, partnership agreement, and articles of association
• Purchase and sale of the company
• Problems with business customers

We draft contracts ourselves and review those drafted by others. We advise you in the event of tensions arising and work with you to find suitable solutions. If the situation nevertheless escalates, we will of course represent you in negotiations and in court.

 

We also do the following

Do you have another concern? Ask us! We know reliable service providers with whom we ourselves work successfully and whom we are happy to recommend to you so that you can get help quickly.

• ETH architect for building damage assessments
• Trust companies for accounting and general tax issues
• Real estate companies for the purchase and sale of real estate and property management
• Lawyer and tax expert for special questions and tax proceedings
• Lawyers for separation and divorce, alimony, custody disputes
• Lawyers for public planning and building law as well as for large-scale lawsuits concerning major construction sites
• Lawyers for intellectual property law (copyright, trademark law)
• Software development companies
• Consultants for companies, especially in the catering sector
• Lawyers for representation in French-speaking Switzerland